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The Optimist Engineer
Experiences, learnings, and inspiration about Software Engineering, Technical Leadership, and Technical Growth, with a bit of optimism. Interesting for Tech Leads and software makers from Startups to medium-sized companies.
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Building an Enterprise MCP Platform - Vol. III: Ironclad Access & Security
Tackling the critical challenges of authentication, authorization, and secure governance for internal AI protocol servers at scale.
Building an Enterprise MCP Platform - Vol. II: Zero-Friction Delivery
How to automate the lifecycle of your MCP servers and establish a seamless pipeline from a developer's repository straight to production.
Building an Enterprise MCP Platform - Vol. I: Keep Deployment Simple
Moving past local terminal setups to build a centralized cloud infrastructure that scales across your entire organization without over-engineering.
How to ship software with confidence - The Pillars
The pillars for making releases without feeling like you're gambling with a coin every Friday afternoon.
Flipping the hiring funnel from code generation to system architecture
How to restructure your technical evaluation to find engineers who think about dependencies rather than typing speed.
Stop Building Distributed Monoliths: How to Find Real Business Boundaries
How to avoid technical coupling and design independent software that match your organization.
Shifting left your effort when working with AI
When you start working with AI, more code is generated, and many more pull requests need to be reviewed. That's your bottleneck today, right? Let me tell you how to solve that problem.
The importance of adapting the message to the listener
Have you ever struggled in a meeting because the conversation deviated from the original purpose? Maybe your message was not meant for your target person in that meeting
Scale Up your Start Up
Compilation of lessons for scaling up your Start Up